To clarify, are you saying that the search menu opens up on its own while playing the game?

Also, are you already playing on borderless mode? While not everybody has the same results, for me, switching to borderless actually doubled my FPS to near 60 and overall improved the performance of the game.

Imagine, you've invaded the enemy base, destroyed the turrets, and you're ticking down the nexus's health. It's almost gone when the game pauses. The enemy team starts doing a rotation of pauses for the full 5-minute duration you've proposed. Even if you limit each player's number of pauses to one, you've now extended the game by a full 25 minutes.

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Metro Detroit area here. Currently on a WOW household and LSI is reporting that I have 1023 ping. This weekend I can return to the Flint area and check an AT&T U-Verse line to see if it's true there as well, if it persists. Additionally, if it's still around on Wednesday I will check on Wayne State University's line. It seems ridiculous that a university would have such a high ping if there isn't a widespread network problem.

If I recall correctly, Total Biscuit had a similar reaction to his fanbase after a while. He hasn't retired but he has basically entirely removed himself from interacting with them, at least last time I checked.

I have fun. It gives me goals to look forward to. I enjoy seeing the concepts that Riot comes up with, even when I think they're not all that great. I've had an account for three or four years but really only recently started playing it, so I enjoy the weekly free rotations so I can get a chance to play a champ that wasn't around when I start started long ago.

I think it really depends on the parent. When I was a young child, I asked a lot of questions about the world. My mom knew a fair number of the answers, but not all of them. She ended up getting me a series of science books for children and we would read them as they came in and consult them if there was an answer we had forgotten.

When I was older, my step-sister, niece, and nephew came to live with us. It was clear my step-sister never made any attempts at engaging their curiosity or critical thinking. They were completely apathetic about learning, but when they did have questions it was about things that they clearly should've known by that point.

The example that sticks out for me the most was when I was about 14 and my niece was 13. My mother was driving us back from a movie and it was late in the evening. My niece looks out the window of the van and asks, "Why is the moon following us?"

We tried explaining to her that it wasn't, and that it's actually just a trick of perspective. We told her that the moon orbited the Earth and didn't follow anybody around. My mom tried drawing parallels. She just didn't get it.

After a couple years of living with us, we did finally get her to get somewhat interested in learning and thinking through stuff. However, they moved out and she relapsed back into the old patterns. It's a miracle she graduated high school, even with my mom taking the niece back in for the last two years of school. After that she moved out and managed to catch her apartment on fire by trying to put a grease fire out with Coca-Cola. She didn't lose much in the fire as she had spent all her money buying pets instead of furniture, which (thankfully) she saved on the way out.

I am not a lawyer, I am a law student. Nothing I say in this comment should be construed as legal advice. If you want legal advice, please seek an attorney in your local area.

My question is, what would you hope you recover through litigation anyway? Even assuming that you can state a cause of action, if you're correct that the project managers have burned through $100,000, how do you expect to recoup that? Yeah, it sucks, but it's hard to get money back from people who no longer have it.

I'm kind of with you. The twists or surprises in a plot aren't as compelling to me as the complexity/intricacy of the story as a whole and what it has to say. Any story can have a twist that nobody sees coming precisely because the author is in control. What's more fascinating, for me, is when the author actually leaves the pieces of information for the audience to arrive at the twist. In other words, the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle are laid out on the table but the audience doesn't have the box with the illustrative picture to guide them.

I remember the first time I saw Se7en and the big reveal at the end wasn't that engaging for me. But I love Se7en as a whole because of its other themes and story elements.

That said (and I'm sure you already know this), not everybody feels the same way so we should respect their choices in avoiding plot revelations. And for many people knowing what's coming genuinely ruins the experience for them.

I'm not sure if this will answer your question but maybe? Back when I played, my perception is that it was just a different kind of grindfest bore. GW2 likes to stroke its ego by flaunting its art. Don't get me wrong: the art is good but this aspect felt, to me, pushed much more heavily here than in other games.

I say that because the way I leveled was zone completion, which was like quests, waypoints, points of interest, and vistas. The game heavily incentivizes the player to "Look at the shit we spent a lot of time drawing and painting and modeling."

If you ran into a wall, did you go to other race's starting areas and work out from there? Each race has a difficulty curve that increases as it goes away from the home town. But if you run out of viable stuff in one area to do you can just hop over to another race's starting area and find more stuff to do.

That said, I maintain my overall opinion that it's just a different kind of grindfest bore.

As /u/crazypsico said, they'd still be mad, but a little less so. But I think if Square-Enix really wanted to keeps tempers down, they shouldn't have been going back and remaking titles. They've kind of set up an expectation in the community that eventually VII is going to get a workover. Is it fair for fans to draw that conclusion? Probably not. But it's hard to say that Square-Enix couldn't have seen that as a possibility when they began releasing remakes, as well as the PS3 tech demo.